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Photoshop CS6 has some great new features that designers are sure to
love. Upgrading from CS4 or CS5 is simple and straightforward, and the
new tools are intuitive, practical, and extremely helpful for a wide
variety of design purposes.

Adobe put a lot of time and effort into their newest iteration of
Photoshop. As a result, there are hundreds of improvements. Rather than
trying to list every single one of them, here are a few of the most
noteworthy additions in Photoshop CS6.

Content Aware Move

This is one of the most impressive additions to Photoshop CS6. In the sample image below, which you can find here,
we have an industrial structure coming out of the ground. Use the quick
selection tool and make a selection. You can also simply choose the
Content Aware Move Tool – which is found under the spot healing brush
tool – and make a selection with that instead.

Once you have made your selection, make sure that the Content Aware
Move Tool is selected, and simply move your selection wherever you want
it. Photoshop CS6 literally fills in the rest. Even if you have a little
residue left (as shown below), simply make a selection around the
problem area, and use content aware fill to clean it up. This is a great
addition to the content aware arsenal.

The New Blur Filters

Field Blur

Field Blur is an excellent filter for giving your photos a realistic
blurred look. It isn’t like Gaussian Blur, Radial Blur, or Motion Blur,
but it is subtle and looks like the same realistic field blur that you
would get from a real camera. Download the sample image here. Duplicate your image layer, and go to “Filter” > “Blur” > “Field Blur.”

It doesn’t take much, since I only set the blur effect to 15px to get
the result shown above. You can also add a pin to different areas to
control which areas are blurred and how strong the Field Blur will be.

A great feature for all three new blur filters is the handy dial in
the center, which allows you to adjust the position of the blur on two
of the filters, and increase the amount with the dial manually. This
adds an intuitive touch that allows you to easily adjust your images to
taste.

You can also add a layer mask to the blur layer and paint the blur effect out of an area where you want to have a focal point.

Iris Blur

Iris Blur adds a blur to every part of your image, except for a focal
point. Iris Blur stands out by giving you precise control over the
shape of the focal area, as well as the amount of feathering.

The diamond controls the shape of the focal area. Dragging it out
makes it square, and dragging it toward the center makes it round. The
small dots around the circle rotate the focal area and also make the
area thin or round.

The inner circles control how much feathering is applied to the transition between the image and the blurred area.

Tilt Shift

Tilt Shift has become popular lately with photographers. The concept
involves taking an overhead image of a scene with either buildings or
people, and adding a blur to make it look as if the objects are tiny.
It’s meant to look as if you are using a camera with a macro setting to
shoot the scene.

The controls are pretty straightforward. The lines determine the
angle of the tilt for the blue, and how wide the spacing is. The
distortion setting controls the amount of distortion around the edges.

The Interface

The entire look of Photoshop CS6 has been overhauled. The whole
interface has been darkened, and it looks great. It makes your images
stand out much more compared to previous Photoshop interfaces, allowing
you to focus more on your images and less on your Photoshop windows. The
contrast seems to help (at least in my opinion), but if you don’t like
the new look, you change change it back within the preferences.

Content Aware Patch

I love this new addition. The patch tool in CS5 is handy, but the one
in CS6 is much better. In CS5, sometimes this technique would work, but
sometimes it would completely ruin the image. Now, the Patch Tool can
be set to Content Aware, so you can simply make a selection and drag it
to the color or texture that you want to patch the area with, and it
will fill in the information.

You can download the sample image found below from here. I want to remove the lone rock and foam on the left.

Simply choose the Patch Tool and make a selection around the area
that you’d like to remove. Check the option in the drop down menu for
content aware, and drag your selection to the area of water with no
foam.

When you let go, Photoshop rebuilds the area with the area of content where you moved your patch tool. CS6 does a great job.

The Crop Tool

This enhancement to the Crop Tool is absolutely fantastic. Sometimes
it’s the little things that count. Adobe has added a bunch of presets to
the Crop Tool to save you time. You can set the crop tool overlay to
the Golden Ratio, the Golden Spiral, Triangle, Diagonal, and Grid.

The constraint presets are another great addition. They have
integrated many common photo size presets, so you can crop your images
in the right proportion and aspect ratio. The Crop Tool is something
that all of us use everyday, and this is sure to save us time.

Vector Shapes

One of the best and longest-awaited additions are vectors in
Photoshop. No longer are vectors made from vector masks; they are true
vector shapes. You can manipulate them just like any other vectorized
image without losing detail or quality.

You can also add a dashed stroke, giving you more flexibility with shapes.

You can also make custom shapes by adding to and subtracting from
your current shapes, or you can make shapes on a new layer each time.
You can also merge vectors now without having to rasterize them first,
which is phenomenal.

Sorting Layers

Anyone who has ever worked on a 150 layer Photoshop file will tell
you that it can be a pain to find what you are looking for. You might
have 15 layer groups, some are expanded, some aren’t, and you have to
flip through your layers panel to try to find the one layer that you are
looking for. This can be a real pain, and as much as I’d like to say I
am always on top of organizing my layers, I am not.

This time around, Adobe has integrated a feature that has me jumping
for joy. That would be the new structure of the layers panel. It still
looks the same, but across the top there are icons that you can click on
to view different types of layers. You can look for just pixel layers
(images), adjustment layers, text layers, shape layers, and smart object
layers. This is extremely handy and a huge time saver. You can also
search for a layer based on certain criteria. You can search for a layer
by kind, name, effect, mode, attribute, and color.

Conclusion

The newest release of the Create Suite is packed full of features,
and Photoshop CS6 is no exception. Not only have they added new filters
and features to make your work easier, they have also added
industry-specific features that save a ton of time and improve
productivity. Features such as layer sorting and searching via criteria,
as well as cropping presets are absolutely amazing. If you haven’t
upgraded in a while, or you are thinking about purchasing Photoshop for
your image manipulation needs, Photoshop CS6 will not disappoint you.